hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. coming up here on "cnn newsroom," like terrorism in the wake of 9/11. that's how the fbi director is describing ransomware attacks escalating across the country. travel rules reversal. why many brits vacationing in portugal are now rushing to get home. and as the jersey shore prepares for summer crowds, restaurant owners are finding

employees hard to find. ♪ we begin with a dire warning from the u.s. government. ransomware attacks are getting so frequent that they could cripple vital infrastructure if drastic action isn't taken soon. experts say cyberattacks are up more than 100% compared to this time last year, and last year was busy. hospitals, schools, police, transportation, gasoline, food, government -- no one has been spared. and a single successful attack can throw daily life into turmoil. remember colonial pipeline that was hacked with an errant password. suddenly millions of americans couldn't get gas, a jarring wake-up call for the biden

administration. jessica schneider explains. >> reporter: the biden administration sounding the alarm about the growing threat of cyberattacks. fbi director christopher wray comparing the effort needed to combat this, to have the fbi approach the response to terrorism after 9/11. there are a lot of parallels. there's a lot of importance and a lot of focus by us on disruption and prevention, wray said. he told "the wall street journal" the fbi is investigating about 100 different types of ransomware, many that trace back to hackers in russia. one study shows the u.s. was hit by more than 15,000 ransomware attacks last year alone, costing businesses and organizations between at least half a billion and $2.3 billion in 2020. ransomware locks up computer files and hackers demand payment to release the files. >> a study of cryptocurrency payments and some of the techniques that were just described to you show a 300% increase in ransom payments over

the prior year. >> reporter: ransomware attacks have impacted everything from the gas pipeline operated by colonial that led to gas shortages all along the east coast to meat production plants being shut down and even individual health care networks whose computer systems have been shut down sporadically across the country and the world. >> before long, we are worried that some people will get hurt, especially when we consider all these incidents that are affecting health care. ireland's health care system went down. >> reporter: the department of justice signaling this week it plans to coordinate its cyber investigations the same way it treats terrorism cases, by sharing information and interagency coordination. former fbi cyber official sean henry says it's going to take an international effort. >> they've got to work collaboratively with foreign law enforcement agencies to take these people off the field. >> reporter: the massive threat from cyberattacks have been looming for years. former director of national intelligence dan coats warned about the threat three years

ago. >> today, the digital infrastructure that serves this country is literally under attack. >> reporter: the white house this week sent business leaders nationwide a letter appealing for immediate action, saying, we urge you to take ransomware crime seriously and ensure your corporate cyber defenses match the threat. fbi director wray also called out russia in that interview for knowingly harboring cyberattackers. but president vladimir putin is fighting back, calling it nonsense that russia was ever involved in any cyberattacks, specifically on the jbs meatpacking plants. and president joe biden will get the chance to confront putin at a summit in switzerland later this month. the white house says president biden will address that jbs attack with putin as well as the increased cyberattacks that we know have been emanating from russia. je jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> as jessica just mentioned there, russia's leader brushing off u.s. allegations that russian hackers were behind the

most recent ransomware attacks. cnn's matthew chance with that part of the story. >> reporter: well, vladimir putin sharply rejecting allegations that russia is in any way implicated in the recent ransomware cyberattacks in the united states, describing them as nonsense, ridiculous, and just hilarious. u.s. officials say two recent attacks on a crucial u.s. fuel pipeline and on a major meatpacking company were carried out by cyber criminals based in russia and have called on the kremlin to crack down. the suggestion of course being the russian authorities are currently allowing the cyber gangs to operate with impunity. president putin made his remarks in an interview with russian state television on the sidelines of the st. petersburg international economic forum. take a listen to what he had to say. >> translator: it's just ridiculous to blame russia for this. i think that the relevant u.s. services should find out who the

scammers are. not russia for sure. for us to extort money from some company? we are not dealing with some chicken meat or beef. it's just hilarious. >> reporter: strong words there from the russian leader, and they come less than two weeks before he's scheduled to meet the u.s. president joe biden in a face-to-face summit in geneva, switzerland. hacking and cyber warfare just one of the fraught issues on the agenda, which is also likely to include sanctions, russia's treatment of kremlin critics, and military threats against its neighbors. president putin says he hopes the meeting will be held in a positive manner but that he does not expect any breakthrough in russian/american relations. matthew chance, cnn. robert lee is the ceo of cybersecurity company dragos and he joins me now from maryland. so the fbi director comparing

these attacks to 9/11 in terms of threat because of what they can do to infrastructure. he wouldn't do that without thought. i mean do you agree with him? just how big and serious is the problem? >> absolutely. so it sounds like it could be hyperbole, but in reality these attacks can absolutely impact infrastructure and the people that depend on them. if you talk about manufacturing companies and stopping vaccine production or hospital and having to cancel emergency appointments, it absolutely can lead to a loss of human life. >> so far, these are about money, it would seem, what we know. and of course the exposure of these vulnerabilitiies show wha could happen if the motive was disruption and not money, if it was chaos they were after. >> yeah. so far everything has been criminal in nature both from non-state actors and state actors taking advantage of these things. but it does expose the weakness

that everyone's concerned about. we've seen these types attacks before, not with ransomware but with cyberattacks and infrastructure, including ukraine in 2015 and ukraine in 2016 when cyberattacks took down portions of their electric power system. >> yeah, absolutely. what worries you most in terms of potential impacts? you mentioned health care organizations being hit. one imagines at some point lives are going to be at risk or even lost. >> absolutely. so i think we have to first focus on human life. that is obviously what we need to protect the most. beyond that, it also is just a significant economic impact. a lot of these industrial companies, they're portions of our supply chain for food, fuel, energy, water. when you disrupt those, it can have a real impact on our day to day lives. and when you start looking at manufacturing, some of those companies are just in time manufacturing. so disruption is very difficult to catch up for, especially if

you're in the middle of a global pandemic. it's not exactly easy and that can lead to significant impacts. >> yeah, good point. tell me this. how does the perpetrators being, it would appear, in russia hamper efforts to get on top of this, even if these aren't government actors and they might well be? but even if they are just criminal, it would certainly seem that vladimir putin and his government isn't acting against them. how significant is that? >> it absolutely gives them air cover. so a lot of these criminals in eastern europe and in russia and other places, their governments don't lock down or crack down at all on their actions. the mind-set is as long as you're not attacking our companies, you're not breaking our laws, therefore we're not going to get involved. because ransomware operations are very easy to get into, it's kind of cheap to start off in, and the payments can be, you know, multi-million dollar payouts on each company they target, and your home government isn't willing to prosecute you or bring you to justice, there's not a whole lot of reasons you

wouldn't do it. and that creates an international crisis. >> this is a corporate issue, isn't it, by and large, the most recent ones anyway, even if the potential impacts of an attack do have national security implications. the u.s. is a country of course that doesn't like federal mandates and so on with private enterprise. what can the federal government actually do? what should it do? >> well, the federal government does have a very important role and responsibility to play especially in coordination, amplification of what works and what doesn't work, and also in trying to find ways to create incentives. you know, regulation is something that always comes up in the discussion, and there is reasonable regulations that make sense. but you can't policy or regulate your way out of this. just as you mentioned, these companies have to invest in it themselves. a lot of the day to day work happens in those private industry companies. as we look at a lot of these companies around the world, they really haven't made the investments in cybersecurity that are required not only for

where they are today but for where they're going and take advantage of new technologies. by and large, it's got to be everybody at the table, and there's got to be international cooperation as well. but as you mentioned, it's got to start with the corporations themselves and there's got to be incentives and mechanisms for them to do the investment required. >> do you know any countries that are doing a good job combating this? as you say, it requires an international, cooperation between governments. anyone doing a good job? >> i don't think anyone is doing a particularly good job on the ransomware problem. again, the u.s. has done a lot. if you look at the uk, what happens with -- basically these various government organizations have worked really hard to create partnerships in those communities, and that is a great thing. but people are what we need to train. people are who we need to employ in these organizations and the corporations to actually do the day to day work, using technologies that amplify those

skills. that's more important really than just partnership. but you do need both. >> great analysis. robert lee with dragos, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thank you. diplomatic pressure intensifying against belarus as the european union imposes its latest sanctions. the bloc is banning belarusian airlines from flying over airspace or landing at its airports. this after that forced landing of a ryanair flight. the activist was once again shown on state media, where his family and supporters say he clearly was under duress. cnn's fred pleitgen with the details. >> reporter: international condemnation is rolling in after that so-called interview that roman protasevich, the journalist and activist who is locked up in belarus, gave to belarusian state tv. the united kingdom is calling it

disturbing. the german government is even calling it disgraceful. and the interview itself is quite difficult to watch. you do see that roman protasevich, at times you can see that he has marks on his wrists, which could obviously come from having had handcuffs on before being lead into that interview room. in the interview itself, protasevich is essentially saying that he's repenting. he says he pleads guilty to organizing some of those protests that took place in belarus. he also says he doesn't want to conduct political activism anymore in the future. he essentially says that he respects the dictator alexander lukashenko. the belarusian opposition, of course, not buying any of that. in fact, the opposition leader in warsaw called for tougher sanctions against the belarusian regime. and there are indeed some new sanctions that have just come into effect. the u.s. is sanctioning nine state-run belarusian companies. minsk is reacting to that. they are now saying they are going to limit the amount of personnel that the u.s. is

allowed to have at the usa embassy in minsk and that includes both technical as well as diplomatic personnel. fred pleitgen, cnn, berlin. we'll take a quick break. when we come back, the u.s. still fighting to get 70% of adults at least one coronavirus shot by july the 4th. we'll talk about why that's so tricky. also why the rise of a covid variant has british travelers in portugal scrambling to get home by tuesday. but your stomach doesn't. well, that disagreement ends right now. lactaid ice cream is the creamy, real ice cream you love that doesn't have lactose. it'll mess with every sense you have. but it'll never mess with your stomach. lactaid ice cream. available in eight epic flavors. lactaid. real ice cream that treats you right. and tonight's winning number, 43

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>> reporter: shots of hope at a new york city playground. >> if it benefits me in a good way and a safe way, then why not get it? >> reporter: an attitude the administration is hoping more young people will adopt as a new cdc study shows a recent troubling rise in covid hospitalizations among 12 to 17-year-olds. >> it is these findings that force us to redouble our motivation to get our adolescents and young adults vaccinated. >> reporter: friday morning, mobile vaccine clinics were ready outside schools. >> our families trust their pr prin principals. they trust their schools. if they can come to what is almost their second home and get it done, it makes a big difference. >> reporter: with plans to park at bars and nightclubs on friday night. >> we're going to go where young new yorkers are. >> reporter: meantime, massachusetts announcing plans to close all its mass vaccination sites in the coming weeks. two-thirds of the state's adults are now fully vaccinated.

new jersey not far behind, just dropped all indoor capacity limits. >> vaccinations are up. jobs are up. wages are up. america is finally on the move again. >> reporter: the president focusing on the positive amid signs his july 4th goal of at least one shot for 70% of adults may be an uphill climb. the country is close, but average daily vaccinations are moving in the wrong direction, dipping below 1 million for the first time since january. >> i think we can make it, but it's going to take a push. >> reporter: a dozen states have already met or exceeded that goal, but -- >> i'd remind people just because the state has hit 70%, we still see pockets in those states where they're well below 50% protection. >> reporter: it's not just those pockets raising concern. six states have yet to get a single shot in more than half their adult population. >> i worry about the ones that are way below that, and they are

sitting ducks for the next outbreak of covid-19. >> reporter: the good news, average daily cases now just above 15,000, and average reported deaths are at levels not seen since march of last year. new jersey governor phil murphy signing an executive order on friday which ends that state's public health emergency nearly 15 months after it began. currently 62% of adults in new jersey are fully vaccinated. nearly three-quarters have had at left one shot. in new york, i'm erica hill, cnn. the uk's drug regulators has authorized the use of the pfizer/biontech vaccine for kids as young as tw12, concluding th vaccine is safe and the benefits outweigh any risk. it's now up to the country's vaccine committee to give the final go-ahead. this coming as concern grows over the spread of the covid

variant first identified in india. public health england says it is showing, quote, substantially increased growth and is now in dominant form in the uk. concern about the spread of variants is prompting british authorities to enforce new quarantine measures for people traveling from portugal. beginning at 4:00 a.m. on tuesday morning, they will have to quarantine for ten days, and that has britain's abroad scrambling to get home before that deadline. cnn's nina dos santos joining us now from london. cases up 22% in the past week. concern over these variants. and now holidays cut short. what's going on? >> reporter: well, just before a couple of weeks before schools are set to break up and what a year it's been. many families spending a lot of 2020 and the early part of 2021 marooned in their houses.

they were finally thinking that portugal would be a safe destination to go to without having to incur any of those painful measures like having to quarantine in your home for the first ten days upon return and expensive and extensive testing as well. as of tuesday, though, that is exactly what they're going to have to put up with. that's prompted a war of words between london and lisbon, and portuguese politicians questioning the logic here of the uk plying these measures when the numbers of covid cases and the rates of infection in the uk and portugal are proportionally quite similar. this is a measure of the disappointment for those travelers scrambling to get back. from green to amber, the traffic light system in the uk just hit the brakes on the travel plans of many uk citizens visiting portugal. the uk downgraded the popular holiday spot on thursday, surprising many british travelers already in the country with new restrictions that they

must quarantine when returning to the uk. the changes going into effect on tuesday. >> it changes the day we go back, so -- >> four hours difference. >> if we come back four hours earlier, we wouldn't have to. if we come back four hours later, we do have to. >> reporter: the uk just reopened some international travel about three weeks ago. portugal was initially on the green list, meaning there was no need to quarantine. but the uk announced it was changing this status, citing a rise in covid-19 cases there and concerns over a mutation of the variant first detected in india. many uk tourists say that decision casts a cloud over their sun-soaked beach holiday, already in progress. >> we've had tests to get here, tests to go home, tests when we get home. i just don't understand. i really don't understand why we're now on the amber list. >> reporter: many businesses in portugal which rely on british tourists for income fear

would-be customers won't come now with the new restrictions. a blow for portugal's tourism sector and a disappointment for the vacationers, who were ready to spend. >> i know a couple of weeks ago, they're just opening up. they're reemploying people. they're getting the hotels open, the shops open. again, they're going to have 0 start backwards. >> reporter: airlines are adding extra flights to accommodate the scramble of tourists trying to get home before the change. for some, a holiday cut short is better than being forced to stay at home. >> reporter: well, michael, the uk says it needs to try and make sure it doesn't bring any more variants that could get a foothold so it stays on track for reopening. this economy domestically, on the 21st of june. at the moment, that appears to be on track, but a week in covid world obviously for the uk and elsewhere is subject to many, many changes, isn't it? back to you. >> yeah, exactly. a bit head-spinning.

nina dos santos in london, good to see you. thanks. organizers for the formula one singapore grand prix have canceled the event for the second year in a row, of course thanks to covid-19. the event's deputy chairman says the decision was, quote, incredibly difficult but necessary due to safety concerns. the race was scheduled for october 3rd. organizers say they're working with officials in singapore to determine the future of the race. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." if you're an international viewer, "african voices: change makers" coming up next. if you're with me here in the united states, i'll be back with another half hour of news.

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and welcome back to "cnn newsroom," everyone. i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. now, the u.s. president joe biden rejecting a republican counteroffer on infrastructure spending, saying their proposal doesn't meet his policy goals. that doesn't mean the chance of a bipartisan deal is dead. a group of republicans and democrats are working on a proposal that we could see as soon as next week. phil mattingly with the latest. >> now's the time to build on the foundation we've laid. >> reporter: president biden

pressing the path forward to a major infrastructure deal. >> we have a chance to seize on the economic momentum of the first months of my administration. >> reporter: a path that remains in limbo. biden speaking by phone with senator shelley moore capito, the lead gop negotiator in the long-running bipartisan talks. but a new gop offer to increase their proposed spending by $50 billion fell far short of biden's expectations. white house press secretary jen psaki in a statement saying biden, quote, expressed his gratitude for capito's effort and good will but also indicated the current offer did not meet his objectives to grow the economy, tackle the climate crisis, and create new jobs. biden this week offering to drop the top line of his proposal and take corporate tax increases off the table to finance the plan, a central gop ask. but republicans have quietly poured cold water on that effort. still the white house not signaling time has run out, yet.

>> it's not unlimited, but we have an opportunity. he's going to talk to senator capito this afternoon. we're going to see how those conversations go. >> reporter: but biden also facing cross-cutting pressures inside his own party. progressives pleading with him to drop the bipartisan talks and move to a budget procedure that allows for a simple majority to move biden's sweeping proposals. >> if we're going to stand up for working families, what we need to do is use reconciliation. >> reporter: as moderates crucial in a congress where democrats hold the narrowest of majorities, calling on them to continue. >> these take time. i know everyone's in a hurry right now. >> reporter: for biden, a critical moment coming as the may employment report shows 559,000 jobs added, an unemployment rate that ticked down to 5.8%. but the hole from the pandemic still deep. 7.6 million jobs fewer than before the coronavirus shut down the nation.

and no shortage of choppy economic data from inflation to labor force participation, threatening to derail biden's goals. >> as we continue this recovery, we're going to hit some bumps along the way. we can't reboot the world's largest economy like flipping on a light switch. >> reporter: for president biden, the biggest question now is where does he go next? white house officials have made clear they don't view senator capito and her group of six republicans as the only game in town. they're willing to have conversations with any republican or democrat who believes they may have a path forward to a bipartisan agreement. and that is key obviously. as long as senator joe manchin and other democratic moderates make clear they want bipartisan negotiations to continue, well, they will. who they'll be with, well, manchin may be one of those senators. he and senator mitt romney have been leading another group that had been working on the issue, hadn't quite risen to the white house level yet. that may soon change. but also keep an eye on house democrats next week. the white house is keying on a june 9th movement on a house

surface transportation bill. that is at the core of what president biden wants to do on infrastructure. it's much larger than what a bipartisan group in the united states senate has produced up to this point. so the white house basically juggling a couple balls right now, keeping them all in the air, recognizing they need options as they move forward but also that time is running short. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. i want to go back for a moment to the job numbers that you heard just a moment ago. the u.s. economy adding 559,000 new jobs in may. now, that's fewer than what economists expected, but twice as many as the month before. unemployment dropped to 5.8%, so overall pretty good news with president biden saying it shows the nation is on the move again. >> no other major economy in the world is growing as fast as ours. no other major economy is gaining jobs as quickly as ours.

and none of this success is an accident. it isn't luck. >> but those numbers only tell part of the story. many businesses are still unable to find workers to fill in the empty spots left by the pandemic. cnn's vanessa yew cave itch takes us to the new jersey shore where restaurant owners are desperate to find employees ahead of the summer crowds. >> reporter: in 74 years of business, vic's italian restaurant says it's never had this, a help wanted sign. as the season heats up in bradley beach, new jersey, the restaurant is desperate for workers to meet summer crowds. how important is this summer for business? >> it's very important, but we can't do the customer service the way we used to. so we need more people, and i'm just fearful to some degree that if we don't have that, not every customer will understand. >> reporter: 77% of americans

plan to travel this summer compared to 29% last year. a couple sign for restaurants and summer hot spots like the jersey shore, closed for much of last year. this small beachside town blooms from population 4,000 to 25,000 in the summer. how critical are these restaurants to the bradley beach community every summer? >> very critical, and i call it the bookends of bradley beach. on the east, we have the beach. on the west, we have main street. >> reporter: vic's is the biggest employer in town, with 100 employees during peak season. but right now, the restaurant can't cover 20% of its shifts, even raising hourly wages by $2 for new employees. >> i just can't get people to come in and to start a new job. >> reporter: why can't you pay more? why can't you offer more incentives? >> well, if we were to go above and beyond when this all goes

away, when the crisis is over, the floor is going to fall out, and inflation is going to kick in. the customers will have to absorb the cost, and we don't want to do that. >> reporter: at langosta lounge in nearby asbury park, owner marilyn sloshback is offering bonuses to current and new employees. why do you think you're having such a tough time finding people to work? >> unemployment. the stimulus is killing us. >> reporter: sloshback owns seven restaurants along the jersey shore and usually employs 250 people. she's operating with just 75. >> i'm honest in telling them i'm pushing them, but still i'm pushing them, and i don't think that's a healthy way to live your life. >> reporter: that means longer hours for servers like kathleen thompson. despite being furloughed and making just as much on unemployment, she wanted to go back to work. >> they've been good to me for 20 years. i can't say, no, i'm not coming

back because i'm collecting this money. no, that's not fair to them. they need their employees to get their business up and running, and i was willing to come right back. >> reporter: vanessa yurkevich, cnn, bradley beach, new jersey. just days after donald trump's blog went dark, the former u.s. president found out he will have to wait at least two more years to regain access to one of his favorite social media megaphones. facebook extending his suspension. cnn's sunlen serfaty with the details. >> reporter: tonight, facebook is not backing down in their ban against former president donald trump, announcing that trump will remain suspended on facebook for two more years until at least january 2023. trump calling the decision an insult to his supporters. >> january 6th was a dark day in the history of the united states capitol. >> reporter: this comes as former vice president mike pence is re-emerging into the

political spotlight in the battleground state of new hampshire. >> but thanks to the swift action of the capitol police and federal law enforcement, violence was quelled. the capitol was secured. and that same day we reconvened the congress and did our duty under the constitution and the laws of the united states. >> reporter: putting some distance between himself and former president donald trump over the january 6th insurrection, publicly acknowledging they have very different views of what happened. >> you know, president trump and i have spoken many times since we left office, and i don't know if we'll ever see eye to eye on that day. >> reporter: pence was inside the capitol on january 6th, overseeing congress certifying the vote for joe biden. >> the senate will now retire to its chamber. >> reporter: as the violent mob chanted "hang mike pence," the vice president was rushed out of the senate chamber. security footage showing that at

one point, he was less than 100 feet from the rioters. >> if mike pence does the right thing, we win the election. >> reporter: earlier than president trump had delivered an incendiary speech to some of the protesters who would later go on to storm the capitol. >> mike pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn't, that will be a sad day for our country. >> reporter: after watching the events unfold at the capitol, the president did not call his vice president to check in on him and did not speak to him for several days following the attack. >> i know your pain. i know your hurt. we had an election that was stolen from us. >> reporter: with their relationship strained, sources familiar say the two men have largely gone their separate ways in the months since as trump continues to dismiss the severity of the insurrection. >> it was a zero threat right

from the start. it was zero threat. look, they went in. they shouldn't have done it. some of them went in, and they're hugging and kissing the police and the guards. you know, they had great relationships. >> reporter: a lie the republican party seems quite content to embrace for now with senate republicans even refusing to form a bipartisan commission to investigate what happened on january 6th. instead, they are pledging loyalty to donald trump as the former president is preparing his own return to the political stage this weekend, kicking off a series of campaign-style rallies on saturday. and while pence did put some distance between him and trump over the insurrection in that speech, it was still a very, very pro-trump speech. he at many times praised the former president and talked about what he believes he accomplished while in office. sunlen serfaty, cnn, washington. uncomfortable conversations

on race in american schools. just ahead, what critical race theory really is and why conservatives want to ban it from the classroom. we'll be right back.

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the georgia state board of education has passed a resolution that blocks the teaching of critical race theory in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms. georgia's republican governor supports that ban, and gop state lawmakers across the country are taking similar action, calling critical race theory divisive and anti-american. but many others say teaching it is essential. cnn's abby phillip explains what the theory is and why conservatives want it banned. >> just because i do not want critical race theory taught to my children in school does not mean that i'm a racist, damn it. >> reporter: schoolchildren across the country are caught in

the crosshairs of a political battle over how race is taught in american schools. >> why wouldn't you include a diversity of people to talk about race? that just baffles my mind. >> reporter: after last summer's nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, conservatives began waging their own battle over american history and an academic theory called critical race theory. >> critical race theory is an academic concept developed by legal scholars in the 1970s and '80s, and it states that race and racism are a big part of american history and are still embedded in our institutions, in our law, in our public policy, and still affect the outcomes and life outcomes of black americans and other people of color. >> reporter: decades after the relatively obscure idea was coined, gop political figures have seized on it. >> critical race theory teaches that america is an evil country and that you are part of the

suppression from the moment you're born. i will not allow federal taxpayer dollars to be used to spread anti-american propaganda. >> reporter: but that claim is false. the theory's founders and others say. >> they use the umbrella term of critical race theory to describe basically anything that challenges conservative viewpoints on, you know, race and racism in america's history. they could be talking about anything from "the new york times'" 1619 project to k through 12 schools daring to teach students justifiably that in fact some of our founding fathers owned slaves. >> reporter: yet since former president donald trump left office, a slew of red states led by ambitious gop politicians have picked up the torch he put down. >> let me be clear. there is no room in our classrooms for things like critical race theory. >> reporter: that was florida governor ron desantis, widely

believed to be a 2024 presidential hopeful. and the issue has also taken hold in oklahoma, which just days ago marked 100 years since one of the deadliest race massacres in american history occurred in tulsa, oklahoma. >> as governor, i will not stand for publicly funded k through 12 schools training impressionable minds to define themselves by their sex or their race. >> reporter: the state's republican governor, kevin stitt, was removed from the massacre's centennial commission after he signed a bill banning schools from teaching certain concepts about race. at a time when republicans are raging against cancel culture on social media, there has been no such outrage against bans on teaching history that they believe is un-american. >> this is cancel culture in reverse. if a teacher is acknowledging that, oh, america does in some ways have a racist past, conservatives are so threatened by this that they are the ones

melting down. >> reporter: abby phillip, cnn, washington. the pentagon takes a close look at the numerous ufo sightings navy pilots have reported. just like the rest of us, it wants to know what is this flying thing? we're now hearing what military investigators have concluded. we'll have that when we come back. you said you'd never do a lot of things. but you never knew all the things a dog could do for you. and with resolve you never have to worry about the mess. love the love, resolve the mess.

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well, are we alone? that's the big question, isn't it? partly prompted by strange flying objects like that one that defy explanation. yes, we're talking about ufos. for the first time, the pentagon will release a report about its investigation into numerous sightings such as that one on your screen. but sources are telling cnn what's in that report which comes out later this month. tom foreman with the intriguing details. >> reporter: the videos are captivating. >> oh, my gosh, dude. wow. >> reporter: dark, grainy images

of air or spacecraft of unknown origins. >> there's a whole fleet of them. look on the s.a. >> my gosh. >> reporter: spotted by civilians, commercial pilots, and military officers too, all insisting what they saw was real and inexplicable. >> it splashed. >> once we actually got close enough to the radar signatures to get our visual systems engaged on the objects, we could actually see an i.r. signature telling us something was. >> reporter: the unprecedented and unclassified report to congress includes analysis of more than 120 incidents over the past decades according to "the new york times." sources tell cnn it will say there is no evidence ufos

encountered by navy flyers were from outer space while not entirely ruling out that possibility. the report is further expected to say these are not high-tech secret u.s. aircraft. and as former president barack obama put it -- >> we don't know exactly what they are. we can't explain how they moved. >> reporter: time and again, witnesses have said just imagine a craft that can fly thousands of miles per hour, maneuver in ways no known aircraft can match, evade radar. >> and, oh, by the way, has no obvious signs of propulsion, no wings, no control surfaces and still can defy the natural effects of earth's gravity. >> reporter: some analysts speculate the ufos could be new technology from the russians or chinese. sources say the report will not rule that out. certainly the u.s. military has denied the existence of secret american aircraft in the past.

and there are skeptics that all of this is much of anything at all. >> i think it's likely, you know, just some kind of optical illusion maybe combined with some, you know, military flight tests of some unmanned aerial vehicles. >> reporter: still after so many years of refusing to acknowledge that anyone was seeing anything up there, the mere fact that an official report is being sent to lawmakers is out of this world. tom foreman, cnn, washington. now, one of america's own flying objects will soon be bringing us the first photos of the solar system's largest moon. nasa's juneau mission is about to come close enough to capture images of jupiter's moons. the largest of those is more than 3,000 miles across and bigger than the planet mercury. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom," everyone. i'll be back tomorrow.

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